3.6. Ascorbic acid
Ascorbic acid is one of the most important hydrophilic
antioxidant that scavenges harmful free radicals and other
ROS and also regenerates other antioxidants like tocopherol to
its functional state (Manas, Bandopadhyay, Chakravarty, Pal,
& Bhattacharya, 2013). The ascorbic acid had shown a
decreasing trend in all the samples during storage at
8 1 8C. Ascorbic acid content declined progressively with